Theatre: The Blackwater Lightship at The Gaiety Theatre, Audio described performance with Touch Tour

The Blackwater Lightship
by Colm Tóibín
at The Gaiety Theatre for Dublin Theatre Festival 2022.

Verdant Productions, Ireland presents The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín adapted & directed for the stage by David Horan.

World Premiere of Colm Tóibín’s piercing novel about a broken family, making a family of your own and the cost of caring for each other.

“When I was young, lying in bed, I used to believe that Tuskar was a man and the Blackwater Lightship was a woman and they were both sending signals to each other and to other lighthouses, like mating calls.”

It’s 90s Ireland and HIV/AIDS is still a terminal diagnosis. A sister, a mother and a grandmother, along with two gay friends, have come together to tend to 29-year-old Declan, who has the disease. Can this makeshift family unit face up to the illness and each other?

Audio described performance on 2 October at 2.30pm with touch tour beforehand at 12.30pm.

Funded by the Arts Council | An Chomhairle Ealaíon